– cops intercept getaway car after Princes Town bar robbery
(Trinidad Express) – Just over a day after a woman police constable shot and killed two women, said to be robbery suspects in Tunapuna, police killed two men minutes after they had allegedly robbed a Princes Town bar on Saturday night. One of the men has been identified as 27-year-old Christopher Brown of Princes Town, while the other remained unidentified up to late Sunday.
According to police, two men entered Elsie’s Bar at St Croix Road, Princes Town, around 8.45 pm Saturday and announced a hold up. They then robbed Sooknanan Ramkissoon, the proprietor of the establishment, of cigarettes, alcohol and $4,000 in cash before fleeing in a waiting silver B15 motor car.
A report was made to officers of the Princes Town Police Station, who, together with officers of the Southern Division Task Force, intercepted the vehicle at Borde Narve Village, near San Fernando.
It is alleged that the driver of the car and another man jumped out the vehicle and started firing shots at the police. The police said they returned fire but the driver escaped into nearby bushes.
Upon checking the vehicle, however, two men were discovered lying motionless with gunshot wounds in the back seat. They were taken to the Princes Town District Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
These latest killings came on the heels on the killing of two female bandits in Tunapuna by a woman police constable on Friday afternoon.
The victims, La Toya Mars, 26, and Susan Fredericks, 40, of Factory Road, Diego Martin, were killed by WPC Patrice St Louis after they robbed Tunapuna market vendor Andrea Amoroso of $7,000.
Mars was shot in the head and died at the scene, while Fredericks sustained a gunshot injury to the upper left side of her body and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope.
